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WASCO COUNTY, OREGON. More than 120 people were in attendance to hear FreedomWorks' Northwest Director Russ Walker give a presentation on energy policy and the "Lights on Oregon" campaign. Two legislators and two county commissioners were among those in the audience, and the presentation enjoyed an excellent reception.

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p> East Bend, NC. On August 26th, the Yadkin County Chapter of FreedomWorks held its monthly meeting. Over 30 FreedomWorks activists heard from Allen Page, Southeastern Director, asking them to contact Senator Dole's office to ask her to sign Senator Jim DeMint's letter calling for letting the moratorium on domestic drilling expire on October 1. Bill Garrett, chapter co-leader, moderated a meeting with County Commission candidate Keith Williams (D). Keith is a self -described conservative Democrat who stated he would not support wasteful spending and would

For his tireless work on behalf of limited government, Senator Jim DeMint (South Carolina) won a FreedomWorks Legislative Entrepreneur honor. Pictured with him receiving the award are FreedomWorks members Monica Hill, Nicole Cobb, and Rick Beltram.

One would think that schools would want immigrant students to learn English as quickly as possible. This is not necessarily so.
Under current policies, non-English speaking students are often sidelined in “English as a Second Language” (ESL) classes for many years, sometimes for their entire academic life.

Opponents of Measure 59 are claiming that the measure does not benefit low income taxpayers; only the middle class on up. Let’s consider what they are really saying.
The real message of the "No on 59" crowd is one of class envy. They are pitting low income taxpayers against middle class income taxpayers. They are saying it is okay to tax the middle class on their income not once, but twice. However, it’s not okay to do this to low income people.

There are children all across Oregon who have spent years in our public schools and yet do not speak, read, or write in English. Many children are victims of widespread, but nonsensical educational theories.
Let’s ignore for the moment the fact that under current policies schools are financially motivated to ensure that immigrant students do not quickly become proficient in English. Let’s think about the so-called "logic" behind current policies.

How democratic is it to allow huge, multi-million dollar property tax increases to be passed by only 10 percent of the voters; saddling every homeowner with huge tax increases that 90 percent of the voters did not support?
That’s the issue the Double Majority was designed to address.